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Podcast: New Books in Art
Episode: Alison Gerber, âThe Work of Art: Value in Creative Careersâ (Stanford UP, 2017)
Description: Is making art a job? This question is central to The Work of Art: Value in Creative Careers (Stanford University Press, 2017), the new book by Alison Gerber, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Sociology at Lund University. The book explores the working lives of artists by thinking through the idea of value in their work. At the heart of this exploration are four accounts of being an artist; four accounts of value; and four accounts of the occupation. These four accountsâpecuniary, credentialising, vocational, and relationalâconnect and conflict with each other to explain the place of both art...